{"id":2934,"date":"2025-05-23T11:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:11:49","slug":"state-park-admission-free-on-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2934","title":{"rendered":"State Park Admission Free On Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"If you want to spend a great day outdoors, visit a state park on Memorial Day. It&#8217;s free.<br \/>There are several state parks in our area.<br \/>The oldest is Highlands Hammock State Park west of U.S. 27 in Sebring in Highlands County. It contains a boardwalk, trails and other recreational amenities.<br \/>It was developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.<br \/>The first state park in Polk County was Lake Kissimmee State Park on Camp Mack Road east of Lake Wales. It contains a  network of trails, access to Lake Kissimmee, a boat ramp and a replica of a 19th  century cow camp.<br \/>Nearby is Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek State Park, which is located east of Haines City on Firetower Road off Hatchineha Road. <br \/>Colt Creek State Park is located on State Road 471 in the Green Swamp north of Lakeland.<br \/>Other state parks in the area are Paynes Creek State Park near Bowling Green, Lake June-in-Winter Scrub State Park near Lake Placid   and Lake Louisa State  Park near Clermont.<br \/>To find out more about state parks and to plan your visit at FloridaStateParks.org. ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to spend a great day outdoors, visit a state park on Memorial Day. It&#8217;s free.There are several state parks in our area.The oldest is Highlands Hammock State Park west of U.S. 27 in Sebring in Highlands County. It contains a boardwalk, trails and other recreational amenities.It was developed by the Civilian Conservation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}